Overview
Display label: Enable Teacher Payable Hours Management
Setting ID: Enable_Teacher_Payment_Management
Location: Main Settings > General Settings > HR Management, in the Teacher Costs Management group.
What This Setting Does
This is the master switch for the whole Teacher Costs Management feature. When it is on, authorized back-office staff can calculate how many hours a _Teacher_ has worked and what it costs, and turn that into payment records for a chosen period of time.
Where It Is Used
- Teacher > Teachers list > Manage Teacher Payable Hours button, which only appears when this setting is enabled.
Business Logic / Behavior
- Enabled: the Manage Teacher Payable Hours button appears on the Teachers list for users who are an Admin, Secretary, or Owner and who also hold the right to run calculations and manage _Teacher_ payable hours.
- Disabled: the button and the whole Teacher Payable Hours feature are hidden, and no payable-hours calculations can be run.
- Once enabled, the actual calculation behavior is fine-tuned by the other settings in the Teacher Costs Management group, such as which cost source to use and how minutes convert to payable hours.
Examples
Alpha Institute wants to pay part-time instructors based on the sessions they teach and the exams they invigilate. They enable this setting, and the Manage Teacher Payable Hours button appears on the Teachers list for payroll administrator Rachel K., who can now calculate and record _Teacher_ pay for March 1 through March 31.
Beta College does not use Classter for payroll calculations, so it leaves this setting disabled, and the Manage Teacher Payable Hours button never appears for its staff.
When to Use
When to Enable
Enable this when the institution wants Classter to calculate _Teacher_ payable hours and costs from sessions, exams, check-ins, or other tracked activity.
When to Disable
Disable this when _Teacher_ payments are handled entirely outside Classter, so the feature and its button stay out of the way.
Notes
- Prerequisites: the user running calculations must be an Admin, Secretary, or Owner and must hold the right to run calculations and manage _Teacher_ payable hours.
- Related settings: Enable Teacher costs management for the following working types (Teacher_Payment_Management_Per_Work_Type in HR Management > Teacher Costs Management).
- Related settings: Where Classter finds the related Costs (Teacher_Payment_Related_Costs_Source in HR Management > Teacher Costs Management).
- Related settings: Calculate working hours for teaching by dividing payments working minutes by (Teacher_Payment_Working_hours_Divider in HR Management > Teacher Costs Management).
K-12 vs Higher Education: this setting behaves the same regardless of institution type.
